Associate Professor Brian Boigon participated in the panel discussion "Non-ordinary reality: Beyond the Virtual" at the 2018 Venice Biennale on May 26. Organized by the Institute of Architecutre at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the panel included Kutan Syata, Agnieszka Kurant, Sanford Kwinter, Andrew Witt, and Barbara Imhof.

A writer and theorist, Boigon's research spans the last three decades in which analogue and digital modalities have confronted one another. From the multimedia days of the early 90s, when he developed a proto-avatar environment called  “The Cartoon Regulators,” to his current project, a series of speculative environments entitled “The Interopera,” Boigon's work marries the problems of motion design in cartoon animation and elsewhere with speculative notions derived from theoretical biology, quantum physics, and literary universes such as those of Geoffrey Chaucer, Timothy Leary, science fiction, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Boigon is author of Speed Reading Tokyo (1990), Culture Lab (1992), We Have Impact (2014) and most recently The Interopera Reader (2017).

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Ember's Chrome Throat  2017
Corten steel, chrome, MDF plinth
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